This is a story that will make your skin crawl!
Officials at a Peruvian airport have arrested a man after discovering he had 320 tarantulas strapped to his body!
Authorities had thought the 28-year-old foreigner’s stomach looked swollen when passing through security at Jorge Chávez International Airport on November 8.
They found two belts holding small plastic containers and Ziploc bags with 320 tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants, according to Peru’s forestry and wildlife service, SERFOR.
The authority said specialists verified that there were 35 adult tarantulas about the size of a hand and 285 juvenile tarantulas.
They are believed to have been taken from the Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru.
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